Some Like Them Hot – Some Don’t

This Is Not a recommended list of peppers to grow in your home garden. It is a chart to base you pepper selection from.

How hot do you like your pepper? The sweet bell peppers at zero Scoville units to Naga Jolokia(Ghost Pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units.
The substance that makes a chile{chili} pepper so hot is called Capsaicin. Pure Capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and 16,000,000 Scoville Units!

Scoville Units

Chile Pepper

Heat
Range

Sweet Bell

0

Sweet Banana

0

Pimento

0

Cherry

00 ~ 500

Pepperoncini

100 ~ 500

Sonora

300 ~ 600

El-Paso

500 ~ 700

Santa Fe Grande

500 ~ 750

NuMex R Naky

500 ~ 1,000

Coronado

700 ~ 1,000

TAM Mild Jalapeno

1,000 ~ 1,500

New Mexico 6-4

1,000 ~ 1,500

Espanola

1,000 ~ 2,000

Poblano

1,000 ~ 2,000

Ancho

1,000 ~ 2,000

Mulato

1,000 ~ 2,000

Pasilla

1,000 ~ 2,000

Anaheim

500 ~ 2,500

Sandia

500 ~ 2,500

NuMex Big Jim

1,500 ~ 2,500

Rocotillo

1,500 ~ 2,500

Pulla

700 ~ 3,000

NuMex Joe E. Parker

1,500 ~ 3,000

Bulgarian Carrot

2,000 ~ 5,000

Mirasol

2,500 ~ 5,000

Guajillo

2,500 ~ 5,000

Jalapeno

2,500 ~ 8,000

Chipolte

5,000 ~ 8,000

Long Thick Cayenne

6,000 ~ 8,500

Hot Wax

5,000 ~ 9,000

Puya

5,000 ~ 10,000

Hidalgo

6,000 ~ 17,000

Aji Escabeche

12,000 ~ 17,000

Serrano

8,000 ~ 22,000

Manzano

12,000 ~ 30,000

Shipkas

12,000 ~ 30,000

NuMex Barker’s Hot

15,000 ~ 30,000

De Arbol

15,000 ~ 30,000

Jaloro

30,000 ~ 50,000

Aji

30,000 ~ 50,000

Tabasco

30,000 ~ 50,000

Cayenne

30,000 ~ 50,000

Santaka

40,000 ~ 50,000

Super Chile

40,000 ~ 50,000

Piquin

40,000 ~ 58,000

NuMex XX Hot

60,000 ~ 70,000

Yatsafusa

50,000 ~ 75,000

Red Amazon

55,000 ~ 75,000

Haimen

70,000 ~ 80,000

Chiltecpin

60,000 ~ 85,000

Thai

50,000 ~ 100,000

Merah

85,000 ~ 100,000

Tabiche

85,000 ~ 115,000

Bahamian

95,000 ~ 110,000

Carolina Cayenne

100,000 ~ 125,000

Kumataka

125,000 ~ 150,000

Bahamian

125,000 ~ 300,000

Jamaican Hot

100,000 ~ 200,000

Birds Eye

100,000 ~ 225,000

Tepin (Wild)

100,000 ~ 265,000

Datil

1,000 ~ 300,000

Devil Toung

125,000 ~ 325,000

Fatalii

125,000 ~ 325,000

Orange Habanero

150,000 ~ 325,000

Scotch Bonnet

150,000 ~ 325,000

TigrePaw-NR

265,000 ~ 348,000

Rocoto / Manzano

225,000 ~ 350,000

Caribbean Red

120,000 ~ 400,000

Choclate Habanero

325,000 ~ 425,000

Red Savina Habanero

350,000 ~ 575,000

Dorset Naga

800,000 ~ 900,000

Naga Jolokia “Ghost Pepper”

800,000 ~ 1,041,000

Pure Capsaicin

15-16,000,000

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